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RFC 2410: The NULL Encryption Algorithm and Its Use With IPsec. ⇒

   23 January 2006, early evening

"The NULL encryption algorithm offers no confidentiality nor does it offer any other security service."

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  1. I hope that sentence is the RFP. What else can you really say? ;-)

    by Ryan on January 24 2006, 1:42 am   #

  2. Not bad, but not as as good as

    http://www.taccompression.com/

    But first thing I did was to look at the date of that RFC (November) because there are several good reads in the RFCs frm the month of April… ;)

    http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/apr1list.html (with the altime classic of IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service: http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2549.txt)

    by Sencer on January 24 2006, 10:42 pm   #

  3. Though tongue and cheek at times, this is actually a legitimate RFC. It describes an “encryption” scheme that can be used by SSH, though you are only supposed to use the NULL scheme when debugging an SSH implementation. You come across strange things reading RFCs.

    by Ramanan on January 25 2006, 12:45 am   #

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